Magdalene Odundo Ceramics For Sale

Kenya 1950 ba hons farnham ma royal college of art emerita professor university for the creative arts chancellor for the university for the creative arts lives and works in farnham surrey u k.

Magdalene odundo ceramics for sale.

Clay forms by magdalene odundo 2001 unsigned offset lithograph. 50 75 description. She then earned a master s degree at the college of artin london and later taught at the. The offset lithograph is from an unknown edition size.

Magdalene odundo born in kenya and studied at the royal college of art in london has exhibited her ceramic works in galleries and museums in the united kingdom europe and the united states. Magdalene odundo kenyan british b 1950 view auction lots. Ceramic forms although magdalene odundo s vessels have no utilitarian or ritualistic function and are created with a process thousands of years old they seem unreservedly contemporary. Paper size is 23 x 16 5 inches with an image size of 16 x 12 5 inches.

Best known for her hand built ceramics kenyan born british designer magdalene odundo originally trained as a graphic designer. Using traditional potting techniques odundo fires her work in wood chips. Her pieces are not made traditionally using a wheel but are instead creating using a coiling technique. Odundo was born in kenya and moved to england in 1971 to study at the cambridge college of art and then travelled extensively from south america to africa to observe and take inspiration from the different pottery styles and techniques.

Resume pdf duro olowu on the journey of things. Magdalene anyango namakhiya odundo dbe obe ma b. Her work is in the british museum the museum of african art the smithsonian institution the metropolitan museum of art brooklyn museum cleveland museum of art detroit institute of art los angeles. By burnishing her hand built coils cover.